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One thing that would be genuinely useful would be the ability to integrate Claude with the Metal debugger somehow, to get automated analysis of GPU profiling. The .gputrace format …

I kind of see myself from ten years ago in this blog post! I also obsessively studied Mandarin Chinese in my late teens for the sheer fun of it, before doing a math undergrad. I ev…

This is because you chose to live an expensive life. Most of the world gets by on less.

As a current Nix user, what I would really like is a statically typed language to define builds. Recreating Nix without addressing that feels like a missed opportunity.

This one has some more traction: https://github.com/fu5ha/ultraviolet

Bit of a side note, but COSMIC depends on the rustybuzz text shaper which is deprecated: https://github.com/RazrFalcon/rustybuzz/issues/74 . There was some work underway to bring i…

I think the final remark about a hypothetical language, Rust-like but without all the low-level requirements, is important here. There is essentially no widely-adopted programming …

A 4K monitor has 8.3M pixels, so you could equivalently say that it's ~three 4K monitors.

Lots of negativity in here. I for one am excited about the prospect of an editor that is as responsive as I remember Sublime being back in the day, with the feature set I've come t…

And in that case, what causes the discrepancy in productivity between London and SF?

You'd think there would be an arbitrage opportunity in paying more $$$ for London talent. Still surprises me that this hasn't happened after all these years of huge differences.

How does Meilisearch compare to ElasticSearch from an operational point of view? I've experienced ElasticSearch to be quite painful to maintain, requiring lots of manual tweaking t…

From the slog Github repo: > You might consider using tracing instead. It's been a while since slog was created and it served Rust community well all this time. It remains a stable…

I've used both of the suggested methods under "Current standards for scaling out databases" so I see where this is coming from. But I peeked at the AWS reference architecture, and …

The project has run out of funds: https://github.com/onivim/oni2/issues/3811#issuecomment-9103... . Considering how many people are annoyed by the trend of Electron everywhere, it'…

It's not written in JavaScript.

Chromium uses OWNERS files to handle the problem of assigning reviews in its large codebase. Github also has built-in support for this. I'm currently working on a large codebase wi…

Since it's closed-source, privately owned and not based on any open standards, it doesn't work on Linux or any mobile device that isn't using Google Play Services or iOS. It's conv…